Over this last weekend Amazon released an original
blockbuster streaming series entitled Man
in the High Castle, an adaptation of the Philip K. Dick story of the same
name about an alternate history in which the Axis powers won World War 2. I haven’t watched it yet but I’ve heard
a lot of good things so far and I’m already a pretty big fan of alternate
histories in general. However,
alternate histories are actually pretty rare outside of literature. There are plenty of historical farces
but as far as alternate futures crafted by changes in history that’s actually
pretty rare and the ones there are usually come from comic books.
Which leads us to today’s subject, the
most enduring and popular alternate history in comic books, the world of Uncle
Sam and the Freedom Fighters. The
heroes of an alternate timeline entitled Earth-10, Uncle Sam and his Freedom
Fighters live in a world where President Roosevelt suffered a fatal heart
attack at the height of World War 2 and the resulting instability cost the
allies the war. Now working in the
underground Uncle Sam leads a small team of super heroes in a never-ending
insurrection against the Axis Empire.
